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...major semiconductor manufacturer: "Even when someone starts a company and fails, he'll be more valuable than someone else the next time because of his business experience." The result is an effervescent creative spirit that bubbles like California's best sparkling wine. Says Dallas-based LJ. Sevin, managing partner of Sevin Rosen Partners, which invests heavily in the new firms: "Between 60% and 70% of the most interesting ideas for new companies come out of the Bay Area...
Entomologists agree that the moths can never be entirely eliminated. But containment may be possible. Early in the larval stage, when the caterpillars are still small and vulnerable, shorter-lived, milder pesticides like Sevin are useful, though Sevin also kills bees, which are needed for pollinating many fruits and flowers...
...combat the new onslaught, the pesticide industry offered up a chemical poison trademarked Sevin. It is not as toxic or long-lived as DDT, but just as surely kills the caterpillars. Nonetheless, environmentalists strongly oppose Sevin because it is fatal to fresh-water insects, fingerling fish and bees. Heeding the environmentalists' warnings, residents of most infested areas this year voted against aerial spraying of pesticides and settled back to let nature take its course...
...VILLANOVA. Brides, l.e. r.e., Walsh Paige, Foster, l.t. r.t., Moore Cooney, l.g. r.g., Buckmiller Congdon, c. c., Buckley, Smith Goebel, r.g. l.g., Casey Biglow, r.t. l.t., Curley H. Jones, Alcott, r.e. l.e., Daniels Dines, Bingham, q.b. q.b., Kane, Russell Philbin, Murphy, l.h.b. r.h.b., McGinn, Gordon Bomar, Berger, r.h.b. l.h.b., Sevin Coy, f.b. f.b., Barr...